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Actually, I realized I'd forgotten how to count change: "$2.50. Out of $10... $3 (hands back 2 quarters), 4, 5 (hands back 2 dollars), and $5 is $10." (hands back a $5). The last time I did that to someone they were like "what the hell was that?"

I love counting back change to people and the order crowd loves it too.
I hate my new system where the amount leaves the screen and then it promptly displays the proper change to give-and I lose my place. I try not to look at the screen because I hate doing change that way.
 
Skynet software upgrades are as bad as human software upgrades. John Connor has to teach the second Ahnuld Terminator slang and vernacular while the first Ahnuld Terminator knew to say "Fuck you, asshole" when someone was banging on his door.
 
Lost ways.

The Dixie Highway is a fairly important road in Louisville. If you're driving from Wisconsin, you will see roadsigns for the Dixie Highway in Chicago. You may be tempted to take them. Apparently around WWI, the dawn of automobile travel, there was an interest in getting from Canada to Florida and the Dixie Highway was the way to do it. Only it wasn't a monolithic route, the way we think of I-65 or whatever, it was a patchwork of roads that diverged and connected and eventually got you there. Seriously. Look it up. It's near impossible to trace. When I lived in SoCal and was coming back to Wisconsin via the long way, I was tempted to take the Pacific Coast Highway. But then I realized how much faster I could barrel up the I-5. Or Route 66. It would've been out of the way, going from NW Wisconsin to San Diego, but if I had the time and money, it would be tempting. So now I wish I had the time and money to fart around on the road, getting around by these forgotten, almost abandoned ways.

The Dixie Highway is the hardest, because in the last few decades "Dixie" has become a dirty word like "retard." So a lot of places are taking down the old signs. But "Dixie" has nothing to do with slavery. It just meant the South. That the South had slavery was ain inconvenient coincidence.
 
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